Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)

What is Integrated Facility for Linux?

IBM® Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) is a processor dedicated to Linux workloads on IBM Z®. It is supported by the Linux operating system for IBM Z, IBM z/VM® with IBM Wave for z/VM, KVM and container technologies.

IBM z15™ offers massive processing capacity, on chip compression acceleration, and a foundation for private cloud and it continues to offer industry-leading capabilities in security and data privacy, and cyber resiliency.